British Mandate of Palestine
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In the summer of 1947, a battered, repurposed American pleasure steamer groaned under the weight of 4,515 Holocaust survivors. Its official destination on paper was Colombia, but everyone on board—and the British intelligence services tracking it—knew the truth. The ship was headed for Mandatory Palestine. It was originally named the President Warfield, but midway across…
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On July 24, 1922, the Council of the League of Nations — the predecessor to the United Nations Security Council — formally approved the British Mandate for Palestine, marking one of the earliest legal steps toward the eventual establishment of the State of Israel. This decision came in the aftermath of World War I and…
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